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A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.
Eos is usually described with rosy fingers or rosy forearms as she opened the gates of heaven for the Sun to rise: [32] the singer in the Homeric Hymn to Helios calls her ῥοδόπηχυν , "rosy-armed", as does Sappho, [33] who also describes her as having golden arms [34] and golden sandals; [35] vases depict her rosy-fingered, with golden ...
Crepuscular rays usually appear orange because the path through the atmosphere at dawn and dusk passes through up to 40 times as much air as rays from a high Sun at noon. Particles in the air scatter short- wavelength light (blue and green) through Rayleigh scattering much more strongly than longer-wavelength yellow and red light.
But soon as early Dawn appeared, the rosy-fingered, then gathered the folk about the pyre of glorious Hector. — (24.776) Ovid's Heroides (16.201-202), Paris names his well-known family members, among which Aurōra's lover as follows:
Aurora, the lovely precursor of morning, who "opens with her rosy fingers the gates of the east", is seen seated on a bank on the confines of a grove, with her arms round the waist of her beloved Cephalus: this tender restraint on his departure, is seconded by a sweet smile beaming in her upraised countenance; but although he feels the gentle pressure, and makes no effort to escape from it, he ...
The Cipher Manuscript was legitimate, and the Golden Dawn is a valid offspring of an older Jewish order in Bavaria called Loge zur aufgehenden Morgenröthe, which translates to "Lodge of the Approaching Morning Light" [15] or "Lodge of the Rising Dawn". This Order was founded to allow German Jews to conduct Masonic-style lodges since, at the ...
Anne of Brittany with her patron saints, Anne, Ursula (with the arms of Brittany on a pennant) and Catherine.This scene is on folio 3.. The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany (Les Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne in French) is a book of hours, commissioned by Anne of Brittany, Queen of France to two kings in succession, and illuminated in Tours or perhaps Paris by Jean Bourdichon between 1503 ...
[3] The Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross (AMORC) was founded in 1915. [2] [4] Lewis was the "imperator" of the group. [1] The group later moved to San Francisco, Tampa, and San Jose; it would establish its world headquarters in the latter. [2] Its headquarters there include a museum, a planetarium, and a temple. The group was successful ...